The word came down on fight day in Cincinnati, hours before UFC 77 took place: Brock Lesnar was coming to the UFC. After hearing this, there was a definite buzz around the UFC’s makeshift office in the host hotel, and while fans flooded the place for the opportunity to meet the fighters on that night’s card, Lesnar and his lawyer, Brian Stegeman, were at another hotel a few blocks away.That’s where I went with the UFC’s head of PR at the time, Jennifer Wenk, to meet with the duo and grab some quotes for a press release and story. Now I’m bad with numbers, but I do recall reading somewhere that … Read the Full Article Here
UFC 20: The Brock Era
The word came down on fight day in Cincinnati, hours before UFC 77 took place: Brock Lesnar was coming to the UFC. After hearing this, there was a definite buzz around the UFC’s makeshift office in the host hotel, and while fans flooded the place for the opportunity to meet the fighters on that night’s card, Lesnar and his lawyer, Brian Stegeman, were at another hotel a few blocks away.That’s where I went with the UFC’s head of PR at the time, Jennifer Wenk, to meet with the duo and grab some quotes for a press release and story. Now I’m bad with numbers, but I do recall reading somewhere that … Read the Full Article Here